Assorting-receptacle for laundries.



No. 823,433. PATENTED JUNE l2, 1906. E. E. L D. R. NSWONGER.

AGLE FOR LAUNDRIES;

APPLIGATION FILED APR. zo. 19o4.-

ASSORTING RECEPT W1 TNESSES;

. properly hold rough-dried clothes in a manner so as to facilitatethetime, labor, or work ience, saving in time, labor, and floor-space,

UNITED sTAfms PATENT @Enron ELMER E. NISWONGER AND DANIEL R.VNISWOl\l(nrl.CR, OF DAYTON, OHIO.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 12, 19C 6.

Application filed April 20,1904. Serial No. 204,013.

.'lo /t/. whom it may concern:

Be it known that wc, ELMER E. NIswoN- GER and DANIEL R. N iswoNGER,citizens of the United States, residing at Dayton, in the county ofMontgomery and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and usefulImplrovements in Assorting Rece tacles for aundries and we do hereby decare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itappertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters and lfigures of referencemarked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to an asserting-receptaclefor laundries, or, inother words, an assorting-bin for clothes, and although the device canobviously be used for sorting and handling clothes under any conditionsis especially and directly intended and designed for laundries doin ageneral public business.

Some 0% the main objects or purposes ofour invention consists inproducing a device. in the shape of a bin or receptacle adapted to ofassorting, it having beencustomary heretofore inthe art to simply throwthese clothes after ha/ving been dried from the wash in apromiscuousmanner in any old basket, box, or other ordinary receptacle, thus causina waste of time, labor, and Hoor-space, W 'le our device remedies allthese numerous defects and yet keeps the clothes in better shape.

Among some of the principal advantages of our invention resulting fromthe carrying out of the objects above referred to may be mentioned `thefollowing-to wit, convensimple in lconstruction,-inexpensive in cost ofmanufacture, and one or more may be e multip `ed to any desired heightor width. Our invention consists, essentially, referring in generalterms to the construction of the device, of a suitably-supportedexterior portion or body having an open front, of a movable interiorportion provided with several platforms upon which the clothes areplaced, a front to each platform extending partially above it forretainin the clothes, the upper'front being movab e, means forpermitting of the raising or lowering of said interior portion or body,and the peculiar and novel combination and arrangement of these variousparts, as will be more fully described hereinafter in detail, andpointed out in the subjoined claim in accordance with the statutesinsuchcases made and provided therefor.

Referring to the annexed drawin s, constituting a formal part of thisspeci cation, and wherein the saine letters and numerals have referenceto like parts wherever occurring throughout the several views, Figure 1is a view in front elevation of our assortingreceptacles for laundries,showing the interior portion in its normal position. Fig. 2 is avertical longitudinal sectional view taken on line :c of Fig. 3 in thedirection indicated by the arrows. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional viewtaken on line y y of Fig. 1 in direction indicated by arrows; and Fig. 4is a detail plan view of a broken-away portion of the top of the device,so as to show slot for front to png' ect through.

n escribing our said invention and referring in detail to the differentparts or elements of construction of said receptacle or bin, asillustrated throughout the various views of the annexed drawings andindicated by means of the letteis and numerals of reference asaforesaid, A refers to the exterior portion or body preferably providedwith casters 8 or other supporting means, the top a and floor b beingrectangular or s uare in form, thus makin four sides to sai exteriorbody, as showny and can readily be understood from Fig. 3, the sides cand rear d being preferably constructed of slats, the space between saidslats allowing ol' a free and uninterrupted circulation of air throughthe clothes and also reducing the weight of the'device, while the fronte 1s open, (see more particularly Figs. 1 and 3,) through which thesorter or operator passes the rough-dried clothes to be assorted ontothe -lower or u per or both platforms F and G, respective y, saidlatforms being connected by posts or upri ts h provided with upper andlower sife an rear braces k. For convenience lower platform F may beprovided with cleats 9 for supporting game ou the Hoor when lowered, ifso desire Platforms F and G are provided with smooth-surfaced fronts fand g, respectively, front f being shown as rigidly connected toplatform F,`while front g is separate and inependent of platform G andis provided with lugs Z, (see dotted lines Fig. 1 and solid lines Fig.2,) which engage platform G ICQ IIO

when raised. Said fronts extend upward only a short height, so as topermit of the clothes being passed over the top thereof onto theplatform, and are provide with knobs or sinall handles m for raising thelatforms, and thus bringing them to the heig it desired, and/having avertical movement in grooves n, located inthe uprights or corner-postsof the front of the device, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, the lower frontf being sufficiently narrower in width than the opening from said grooveon one side to said groove on the other side, so that when said front israised or lowered it will move or play laterally sufficientlyloose ingrooves/11 so as to pass a small sto o (located in one of said rooves)and Whicfi supports front g when sair front is down and the lparts arein normal position, as shown in ig. 1.' The platforms, the fronts, andthe posts h connecting said platforms constitute what may be forconvenience of description here termed the interior portion or body ofthe device.

Fronts f and g are provided with a blackboard, upon which the sorter canmark or indicate with a piece of White chalk or crayon the initialletters, numbers, or name or other mark upon the clothes and the numberof articles or any other memorandum desired relating to the clothesbeing assorted, as shown 'and indicated for convenience u on thedrawings by means of surface shading, as at 10, Fig. 1. Front gisprovided with a small plate having a lip p, adapted to engage a sring-catch q for su porting said interior body through the me ium oflugs Z en aging latform G when raised by means o its kno or handle m, aslshown in solid lines in 2 and broken away in dottedlines in Cables orropes 1' are connected at one of their ends to platform G, (see Figs. 1and 2,)

each passing over pulleys or small wheels s and t, suitably attached tothe device, as shown, and to their op osite ends are attached a weightu, Whic holds the interior portion or body when raised to the differentheights or positions' for the convenience of operator when sorting, asshown in'solid and dotted lines in Fig. 2, there being the usual amountof frictional contact to assist in supporting when said interior body ismoved.

As c earlyshown in plan in Fig. 4 of a portion of the top a, a slot 12is formed through the top near the front edge suliciently lon so thatfront g can extend or 'project upwar therethrough when the interior bodyis raised as high as to a will permit, as shown in dotted lines in ig.2. y We wish to be here understood as still reserving to ourselves theright under the wellknown and long-established doctrine of patent law ofmaking any minor changes in the arrangement or construction of thevarious parts of our device as may from time to time be suggestedorfoundnecessary, so long as within the scope and s irit of the invention andwithout departing fiom the principles of the same. We are of course'well aware of other de vices of a somewhat similar nature-such asdumb-waiters, for example-in Whcha bodyl uprights; said platforms havingthe smoothsurfaced fronts, one of which is provided with lugs forengagement with its platform; and the pulleys, cables and weights foroperating 'said body.

In testimony whereof we have affixed our signatures in resence of twowitnesses.

LWR E. NISWONGER. DANIEL R. NISWNGER. Witnesses:

JOHN HEILMAN, F. P. SPILKER.

